Re: UltraSPARC IV

Mladen Gogala wrote:

>How did they compare? Hopefully, that claim is not based on dhrystone MIPS?
>You know what MIPS stands for, don't you? (MIPS = Marketing Invention for Pushing Sales).
>
>

I don't even have that... Only the marketing statements with no real numbers to back it up... Things like:

"Developed in concert with the SolarisTM Operating Environment to meet the performance, reliability, and scalability requirements of mission-critical enterprise, HPTC, and other compute intensive applications, the UltraSPARC IV processor can almost double the current UltraSPARC III processor-based system throughput."

"Provides up to 2 times the application throughput of UltraSPARC III processor"

"Twelve UltraSPARC IV processors execute 24 simultaneous computing threads."

"This CMT technology nearly doubles current compute densities and reduces overall heat dissipation, resulting in significant end-user cost-benefit savings."

" Up to 12 dual-threaded, near-linear scalability, UltraSPARC IV processors with 16 MB cache."

I'm searching for something with a little more meat... One of the reasons for this email...

:-)

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Regards,
Tim Johnston
Tel: 978-322-4226
Fax: 978-322-4100



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